Sally O'Neil
Also Known As: Sue O'Neil , Sally O'Neill , Sue 'Bugs' O'Neill , Sue O'Neill, Virginia Louise Concepta Noonan
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 23, 1908
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 18, 1968
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Battling Butler
Overview: A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-02
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Hardboiled
Overview: Chorus girl Teena Johnson may be "hard-boiled," but she's no golddigger. Thus, when the father of her wealthy sweetheart Kyle Stannard tries to buy her off, Sally refuses the money. She sticks by Kyle even after he is disinherited and forced to go to work. The financial strain on the young couple's marriage eventually takes its toll, and before long they separate, with Sally returning to the chorus line to square her husband's debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-20
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Wandering Papas
Overview: A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the wide open spaces to collect the food, coming into contact with a mad hermit, who hates anybody seeing his daughter, before returning to cook dinner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-21
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The Battle of the Sexes
Overview: Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson's apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. When his loyal wife (and their two children) see him out catting with Marie at a night club, mom's devastated and confronts him. He moves out. Babe wants Marie to sell Judson worthless bonds. Will mom commit suicide? Will sis shoot the floozy? Will pops figure out he's being a fool?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-12
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Frisco Sally Levy
Overview: Sally Lapidowitz is the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother and the girlfriend of motorcycle cop Patrick Sweeney. Sally finds herself attracted to the fancy Stuart Gold, a young Jewish boy who charms her father but raises Patrick's suspicions, which are soon justified.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-02
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On With the Show!
Overview: With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-13
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By Appointment Only
Overview: When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter, and makes her his ward, but his fiancé doesn't particularly like it. After he returns from a three-year engagement in Europe, the doctor discovers that his ward is now a beautiful, full-grown woman, and finds himself falling for her--even though she's engaged to his fiancé's brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-06
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Sixteen Fathoms Deep
Overview: A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival diver, however, has other plans for him.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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The Moth
Overview: Wealthy young socialite Diane Wyman squanders her fortune and becomes involved in a scandalous raid at a wild party. Her legal guardian, a lecherous old man who has the hots for her, hires a private detective to spy on her. He tails her to a train headed for New Orleans, but she catches on to him. She befriends a young woman aboard the train and they both give the private eye the slip. What Diane doesn't know, however, is that that her newfound friend is actually a notorious criminal known as The Moth, and she has her own reasons for helping Diane escape--she, too, is being tailed by a detective, who's after a cache of jewels she's stolen.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-14
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Broadway Scandals
Overview: Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new life together as man and wife.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-10
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Kathleen Mavourneen
Overview: Kathleen O'Connor, fresh off the boat from Ireland, must decide between the two men who love her - a poor plumber and a wealthy politician.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-19
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Convention Girl
Overview: Wily hotel 'hostess' Babe LaVal navigates booming business, cabaret calls and shady deals in Atlantic City. She meets a soup magnate, and begins to feel it might be 'the real thing'.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-30
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Don't
Overview: Don't is a 1926 silent Comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-15
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Beggar's Holiday
Overview: A young woman falls in love with the man of her dreams, not knowing that he's an embezzler who's about to flee the country.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-17
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Girl of the Port
Overview: Josie, a New York showgirl with a mind of her own and a heart of gold, finds herself stranded on the island of Fiji. While seeking a way home she is befriended by a local man who gets her a job working as a barmaid at The Bamboo Bar. There she meets an alcoholic World War I veteran who is haunted by his wartime experiences and has an irrational fear of fire. Under her concerned care, he begins to recover and they fall in love. But then her jealous self-appointed boyfriend forces the veteran to participate in a traditional Fijian fire-walking ritual. To overcome his terror he must walk across 20 feet of burning coals and fight his rival to reach Josie's loving arms.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-02
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Jazz Heaven
Overview: A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-03
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Long Pants
Overview: Glenn's first attempt at wearing long trousers and being a man about town goes swimmingly as he quickly falls for a vivacious young widow who accidentally runs him down. But his father feels she is beyond his abilities and competes for her attention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-31
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The Sophomore
Overview: Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-24
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The Brat
Overview: A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-23
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The Girl on the Barge
Overview: The illiterate daughter of a drunken, nasty sea captain falls in love with a tugboat pilot. Her father disapproves of the relationship, and is determined to do everything he can to break it up.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-03
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Mike
Overview: A Modest Comedy Drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-10
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Kathleen Mavourneen
Overview: A hugely popular, much-adapted comedy in which a Liverpool lass visits family in rural Ireland and finds she has several rivals for her affections
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-01
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
Overview: A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-26
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Too Tough to Kill
Overview: A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-20
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Salvation Nell
Overview: Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-01
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Slide, Kelly, Slide
Overview: A minor league pitcher lets pride get the better of him after he joins the New York Yankees.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-12
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1925 Studio Tour
Overview: A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-09
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Show of Shows
Overview: Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-21
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Murder by the Clock
Overview: A policeman investigates a woman's link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-21
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Ladies Must Love
Overview: Lighthearted comedy film following the (mis)adventures of four gold diggers.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-25
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Hold Everything
Overview: A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-20
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Overview: The three are showgirls, each with a different approach to life and love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-27
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Round About Hollywood
Overview: This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen from the streets. Considerable time is taken showing the kinds of architecture of private homes. There are images of various important buildings, and a depiction of the Hollywood Bowl. Finally, there is a sequence revolving around the premiere of the film “Dirigible” (1931) at the famed Chinese Theatre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-22
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The Floating College
Overview: College Life - Love - and the big things of life under the light-heartedness of youth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-10
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Broadway Fever
Overview: Stagestruck Sally McAllister can’t get an appointment with famed theatrical producer Eric Byron so Sally responds to an ad for a maid only to discover that she will be working for Byron himself! Falling for him but still burning with ambition she arranges for Lila Leroy, Byron's leading lady, to take a train to Oakland, California instead of New Jersey, then hot foots it to Oakland, New Jersey, where Byron's latest play is taking place, and impersonating Lila by wearing a blonde wig but as dress rehearsal approaches will she get away with the subterfuge?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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Becky
Overview: Becky (1927) film
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-12
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The Callahans and the Murphys
Overview: The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-18
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Flaming Flappers
Overview: Glen and his friends are attending a co-ed school and are managing to have a very enjoyable time of it - in fact so much so - that Glen becomes engaged to one of the fair co-eds. His sister precedes him to the home town and breaks the news of his engagement to the family. In the meantime Glen and his sweetie enlist the aid of a rickety old flivver lo make the visit to the relatives. They have a tough time keeping the old car together and to further add to their difficulties, decide to adopt an orphan baby on the way home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-27
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Mad Hour
Overview: Mad Hour is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Boyle and starring Sally O'Neil, Alice White and Donald Reed. It was adapted from a novel by Elinor Glyn.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-04
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The Lovelorn
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-17
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